Paul Heller wrote:
  I just acquired an old IBM 3279 mainframe terminal. I
used one of these
 back in the early '80s. Anyone know of any kits or technology or
 techniques to hook this up to something useful (perhaps an RS-232 or
 S100 interface or PCI interface) or is this just a boat anchor (I don't
 happen to have an old IBM mainframe handy)? 
I suspect the easiest way would be to hook a smaller terminal controller
to a parallel channel adapter on an RS/6000.
Peace...  Sridhar